Ingesting from Existing Table string field in Serde - hive

I'm looking to parse out a json string in HIVE using Serde, but don't see an easy way of doing so from a string already in HIVE tables. Do you know how I can do this?
To make my scenario more understandable, here is a butchered example I may try:
ADD JAR hdfs:////user/d/libs/json-serde-1.3.8-jar-with-dependencies.jar;
CREATE Temporary TABLE TN (v string);
Insert overwrite table TN select '
[
{"t1":31646203,"t2":"h","s1":
[
{"r1":"w","r2":"w2"}
]
}
]' as v;
CREATE TABLE deserializeThis (jsonDeserialized array<struct<t1:int,t2:string,s1:array<struct<r1:string, r2:string>>>>)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.openx.data.jsonserde.JsonSerDe';
Insert overwrite table deserializeThis select v FROM TN;
Thanks for all your help!

In order to use SerDe we can operate on the file system level. To do this, we can push the information into a table and read from that location using SerDe.
This answer describes the above:
How can I parse a Json column of a Hive table using a Json serde?

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I have created a table employee_orc which is orc format with snappy compression.
create table employee_orc(emp_id string, name string)
row format delimited fields terminated by '\t' stored as orc tblproperties("orc.compress"="SNAPPY");
I have uploaded data into the table using the insert statement.
employee_orc table has 1000 records.
When I run the below query, it shows all the records
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But when run the below query, it shows zero results even though the records exist.
select * from employee_orc where emp_id = "EMP456";
Why I am unable to retrieve a single record from the employee_orc table?
The record does not exist. You may think they are the same because they look the same, but there is some difference. One possibility are spaces at the beginning or end of the string. For this, you can use like:
where emp_id like '%EMP456%'
This might help you.
On my part, I don't understand why you want to specify a delimiter in ORC. Are you confusing CSV and ORC or external vs managed ?
I advice you to create your table differently
create table employee_orc(emp_id string, name string)
stored as ORC
TBLPROPERTIES (
"orc.compress"="ZLIB");

Hive column having complex data structure giving null values after reading the parquet data

After reading the parquet data as dataframe, it looks as shown in below image:
But now I want to read the parquet data using hive. I wrote the create table statement as :
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test_13102019 (
`DeviceInfo` STRUCT<
`name`: STRING,
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STORED as PARQUET
LOCATION 'x/y';
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Is there a way to specify Date/Timestamp format for the incoming data within the Hive CREATE TABLE statement itself?

I've have a CSV files which contain date and timestamp values in the below formats. Eg:
Col1|col2
01JAN2019|01JAN2019:17:34:41
But when I define Col1 as Date and Col2 as Timestamp in my create statement, the Hive tables simply returns NULL when I query.
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS my_schema.my_table
(Col1 date,
Col2 timestamp)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘|’
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION 'my_path';
Instead, if I define the data types as simply string then it works. But that's not how I want my tables to be.
I want the table to be able to read the incoming data in correct type. How can I achieve this? Is it possible to define the expected data format of the incoming data with the CREATE statement itself?
Can someone please help?
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HIVE 2.1.1 Table creation CSV-Serde

So I did all the research and couldn't see the same issue anywhere in HIVE.
Followed the link below and I have no issues with data in quotes..
https://github.com/ogrodnek/csv-serde
My external table creation has the below serde properties,but for some reason,the default escapeChar('\') is being replaced by quoteChar which is doublequotes(") for my data.
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS people_full(
`Unique ID` STRING,
.
.
.
.
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (
"escapeChar" = "\\"
)
STORED AS TEXTFILE
DATA ISSUE :
Sample HDFS Source data : "\"Robs business
Target HIVE Output : """Robs business
So the three double quotes as seen in """Robs business after the replacement is causing the data unwanted data delimitation (column is a very long string) may be as HIVE cannot handle three double quotes inside data(quote(") is also my default quote character)?
Why is this happening and is there a solution ? Please help.Many thanks.
Best,
Asha
To import your csv file to hdfs with double qoutes in between data and create hive table for that file, follow the query in hive to create external table which works fine and displays each record as of in the file.
create external table tablename (datatype colname,datatype2 colname2) row format
SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES
("separatorChar" = ",","quoteChar" = "\"") stored as textfile location '/dir_name/';
Here, the tablename represents the name of table, datatype is like string, int or maybe other and colname represents the name of the column you are going to give and finally dir_name is the location of csv or text file in hdfs location.
Try with the Escaped by it will work. Please find the below screenshot example.

Create a table in Hive and populate it with data

While trying to load data in a Hive table I encountered a behavior that looks strange to me. My data is made up of JSON objects loaded as records in a table called twitter_test containing a single column named "json".
Now I want to extract three fields from each JSON and build a new table called "my_twitter". I thus issue the command
CREATE TABLE my_twitter AS SELECT regexp_replace(get_json_object(t.json, '$.body\[0]'), '\n', '') as text, get_json_object(t.json, '$.publishingdate\[0]') as created_at, get_json_object(t.json, '$.author_screen_name\[0]') as author from twitter_test AS t;
The result is a table with three columns that contains no data. However, if I run the SELECT command alone it returns data as expected.
By trial and error I found out that i need to add LIMIT x at the end of the query for data to be inserted in the new table. The question is: why?
Furthermore, seems strange that I need to know in advance the number x of rows returned by the SELECT statement for the CREATE to work correctly. Is there any workaround?
You could create a table on this json data using the JSON serde which would parse the json objects and then you could easily select each individual columns easily.
Find below a sample hive DDL for creating a json table using json serde
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE `json_table`(
A string
,B string
)
ROW FORMAT SERDE
'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
STORED AS INPUTFORMAT
'org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat'
OUTPUTFORMAT
'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat'
LOCATION
'PATH'